Word: coping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South has a servant shortage for the first time in its history. Surprised Atlanta, Nashville and Winston-Salem wives find that even inexperienced Negro girls demand at least five days off a month, won't stay in, won't cope with children, won't do laundry and insist on dinner at 6 p.m. (which in wartime is practically mid-afternoon...
...Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic scores, usually bought only by musicians, music students and zealous amateurs...
...doubt if the President wanted this state of affairs when he sent MacArthur to Australia, but perhaps he doesn't want to cope with any more unpleasantness than is necessary at this time. . . . But how grotesque that a man of such magnificent qualities and achievements, and such a wealth of worldwide experience should become the Forgotten Man, while men often of lesser equipment, some of whom had served as his aides not so long ago, are given exalted posts...
...McNutt's great worry was the nation's impending manpower shortage, heading toward a crux in the fall. To cope with it he might have to order nonwar workers to switch to new jobs, might have to "freeze" war workers in their present jobs. But until the U.S. had a sensible wage policy, reducing inequalities from plant to plant and industry to industry, labor would never stand for "freezing." And McNutt had no power over wages. Nor did Production Boss Donald Nelson, though he had all the responsibility for factory output...
...Business School is aware that the present development of aeronautical sciences because of the war means a new concept of post-war transportation. We feel that every phase of American economic life and world economy will be affected by this new factor. Our job is to train men to cope adequately with the problems which will inevitably develop. The projected air research and training program will do exactly that...